Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 31, 2022


Episode 1760 Scott Adams： Come Diagnose My Opinions As COVID-Addled Or Brilliant. I Need Help


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

144.53938

Word Count

7,962

Sentence Count

638

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Oh, good morning, everybody, and welcome to either the best show in the history of civilization
00:00:10.000 or an embarrassing COVID-addled brain demonstration that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
00:00:18.820 It's going to be one of those two things, and you, ladies and gentlemen, and everything
00:00:23.240 in between, you are the judges and the juries for this presentation.
00:00:27.800 This will not be a normal live stream, no.
00:00:32.460 Today, you are the judge to see if my brain fog from my COVID has lifted yet.
00:00:39.660 You will be the judge because you know who can't tell?
00:00:42.940 Me.
00:00:44.280 So will I produce my usual superb analysis and clearly demonstrate that my brain is working
00:00:52.160 at 100%, or will it be lacking a little bit?
00:00:55.920 Those of you who have watched me a little while, you be the judge.
00:01:00.580 Today will be the test.
00:01:02.480 Now, if you'd like to get this off to a good start, I know you do, all you do is a cup
00:01:06.920 or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of
00:01:10.180 any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:13.040 I like coffee.
00:01:15.520 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:01:19.640 The dopamine to the day thing makes everything better.
00:01:24.120 It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're about to enjoy it.
00:01:27.440 Go.
00:01:27.600 Ah, yes.
00:01:36.600 Well, catching you up, if you did not know, I tested positive for COVID on Saturday.
00:01:43.620 Today is Tuesday, and I thought I'd give you an update.
00:01:46.780 And so, just before I came on here, I took another test to see if I still have the COVID.
00:01:57.000 Does anybody want to look at this test and tell me the answer?
00:02:00.600 Because I couldn't see it from where it was laying there.
00:02:04.180 All right.
00:02:05.240 Somebody?
00:02:05.980 I'm going to show it to the locals people first.
00:02:08.840 All right, locals.
00:02:09.420 Oh, yeah, that's not just COVID.
00:02:20.780 That line is so strong, it's like super COVID.
00:02:25.100 I believe I have now passed into some kind of ultra COVID situation.
00:02:31.280 You know, ultra MAGA was impressive, but ultra COVID, boom, that's what I got.
00:02:39.660 Stay away.
00:02:40.640 Stay away.
00:02:41.800 Stay away.
00:02:43.120 Now, when I want to not spend time around people, instead of making excuses, like, oh, I have to work, or, you know, whatever.
00:02:52.920 I'll just take this out.
00:02:54.060 This will be like a cross that gets rid of vampires.
00:02:56.260 Back off.
00:03:01.360 Back off.
00:03:02.580 20 feet.
00:03:03.380 20 feet.
00:03:04.360 20 feet.
00:03:04.940 20 feet.
00:03:05.820 So I think this will keep me lonely for a while.
00:03:13.660 But let me give you the update on the symptoms.
00:03:17.660 So first day, Saturday, horrible.
00:03:20.020 Second day, I would say the symptoms were gone 70% by the second day.
00:03:25.700 But 30% of that was still pretty rough, right?
00:03:30.700 It was still 30% of something that sucked.
00:03:34.160 So day two wasn't too fun.
00:03:36.860 Day three, it looked like it was another 70% or so.
00:03:41.280 And here was my experience.
00:03:42.940 I had a sudden, almost unnatural recovery that happened within a few hours.
00:03:53.680 Now, isn't that weird?
00:03:56.680 So what drug did I take, or what medicine or medicines did I take, that caused me to go from really, you know, head foggy, tired, couldn't move, basically.
00:04:10.420 And then suddenly, boom, I didn't have any symptoms at all that I could identify.
00:04:19.760 What was it?
00:04:21.840 Here's the answer.
00:04:24.320 Apparently, it just does that.
00:04:27.880 Here's everything you need to know about everything you've ever heard about what works and what doesn't work with COVID.
00:04:35.980 I don't think it matters what you do.
00:04:37.760 I didn't do anything that should have made a difference.
00:04:41.180 I took Tylenol, right?
00:04:44.200 Smoked weed, drank coffee, which I do every day.
00:04:48.500 So remember I told you that when I first contracted it, it was obvious it was COVID.
00:04:56.180 I mean, if anybody had been paying attention, it was obvious.
00:05:00.200 And part of why it was obvious is that I'd never felt anything like it.
00:05:03.400 It just didn't feel like a normal illness at all, because it affected my brain.
00:05:09.900 I've never had that before.
00:05:11.520 Have you?
00:05:12.520 Any kind of illness that directly affected your cognition?
00:05:16.520 And it was pretty bad.
00:05:18.180 There were simple things that I couldn't figure out.
00:05:20.740 You should have seen me try to send a text message.
00:05:23.900 There was a period when it was sort of peaking in intensity.
00:05:28.840 When I would type a text message and I would look at it, it would literally just be random letters.
00:05:36.000 They weren't even close to words.
00:05:38.080 They weren't even close.
00:05:39.000 And I'd look at it and say, oh, I guess I had been like one over or something.
00:05:44.660 Sometimes your keyboard hand is like one letter over.
00:05:47.940 So I'd type it again, paying more attention.
00:05:50.600 And I'd look at it again and be like, still not even close to words.
00:05:55.460 You wouldn't even know what word I was intending.
00:05:58.280 I was trying to do searches on Google.
00:06:01.880 But fortunately, Google knows how to translate your misspellings to real words.
00:06:06.440 I think every word I tried to spell was misspelled.
00:06:10.840 Like a lot.
00:06:13.300 The cognitive part was pretty intense.
00:06:17.540 But here's my bottom line.
00:06:19.500 Everybody who took anything on the third day
00:06:23.900 believes that they had a miraculous recovery because of what they did on the third day.
00:06:30.840 Because I didn't do anything.
00:06:32.240 And I had a miraculous recovery that didn't look natural.
00:06:36.440 The fact that all of my symptoms went away within just a few hours,
00:06:40.740 instead of sort of gradually wearing off, nothing like that happened.
00:06:46.000 The body ache and the symptoms came on within one hour when I got it.
00:06:54.360 And when they left, it felt like they left in an hour.
00:06:58.480 Now, nothing about that feels natural.
00:07:02.060 Nothing.
00:07:03.140 I'm not saying that means it was an engineered virus.
00:07:06.480 But I've never felt anything that came on that fast or left that quickly after two and a half days.
00:07:13.640 So now, imagine if I had successfully gotten the Paxlovid drug
00:07:18.780 that I had initially thought about but was too mentally incompetent to make it happen.
00:07:23.860 Later, I changed my mind and decided I'd be better off writing it out.
00:07:29.240 But imagine if I'd gotten it.
00:07:31.840 I would have gotten it and taken it just hours before all of my symptoms went away on their own.
00:07:39.900 Miraculously.
00:07:40.920 What would I have concluded?
00:07:43.160 Would I have recommended to you that you take Paxlovid?
00:07:46.060 What? I would. I would.
00:07:48.580 Because if I felt that bad for two and a half days,
00:07:51.900 and within hours of taking a particular drug, I felt completely better,
00:07:56.960 you don't think I would recommend you take that drug?
00:08:00.280 And I would be completely wrong.
00:08:03.600 I mean, maybe it is a good drug.
00:08:05.000 I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
00:08:06.520 Don't take my advice.
00:08:08.420 Whatever you do.
00:08:09.080 By the way, yeah, let me stop here.
00:08:11.100 Make sure you're not taking any medical advice from this.
00:08:14.140 There's nothing like that happening here.
00:08:16.060 What I'm trying to tell you is that anything you heard about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,
00:08:21.340 Paxlovid, remdesivir, you name it.
00:08:25.160 Anything you heard where somebody's symptoms, you know, very quickly turned around,
00:08:31.480 how can you distinguish that from what happened with me?
00:08:36.360 Now, how many of you had a similar situation where you didn't take anything that should have helped
00:08:42.000 and you had a very quick turnaround?
00:08:46.740 Yeah, you see in the comments, in the locals, it's a little faster.
00:08:50.640 Right, you're seeing yeses, right?
00:08:52.420 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, right.
00:08:54.840 So everything that you heard about something that definitely worked, no way to know.
00:09:01.300 No way to know.
00:09:01.900 All right.
00:09:05.640 And then, of course, today there's an article, of course, about Paxlovid.
00:09:10.340 So that's the pill you take, one of the pills you take if you have symptoms.
00:09:15.360 And it says that you can get a rebound thing and still be contagious after you take it and blah, blah, blah.
00:09:22.000 All right.
00:09:22.420 So there's that.
00:09:25.660 I'm glad I didn't take it.
00:09:26.560 I watched the Norm MacDonald special, the one he recorded just in his house before he passed.
00:09:35.900 And it was disturbing.
00:09:38.440 It was disturbing because you knew he was so close to his death and that he knew it when he was doing it.
00:09:44.880 And he had a number of jokes about death.
00:09:48.940 And I have to admit it was a little jarring.
00:09:51.260 Now, here's a story I've told some of you, you've heard before, and I can tell it because he's passed.
00:09:59.980 But a few years ago, Norm contacted me.
00:10:04.920 And apparently he had followed me to some degree.
00:10:09.160 I don't know.
00:10:09.500 I think he may have read one of my books or something.
00:10:12.000 And I think he might have seen my live streams.
00:10:14.440 So he contacted me on Twitter, I think, and asked if I would take a call.
00:10:20.120 So I did.
00:10:21.260 So I talked to him, and I didn't know that he was dealing with a, you know, terminal cancer.
00:10:28.640 But he asked me about dealing with pain.
00:10:32.760 So apparently he had some kind of ongoing pain that drugs weren't doing the job for, for whatever reason.
00:10:39.260 And he asked me if hypnosis would be a potential solution to that.
00:10:44.100 So I told him what I knew about it, which is some people do get some relief from hypnosis.
00:10:49.200 It kind of depends, right?
00:10:50.940 I'm not going to say it's going to work on every kind of pain and every situation.
00:10:54.600 I don't know that to be true.
00:10:55.940 But you hear enough reports about people, anecdotally, who feel like they handled their pain.
00:11:02.640 So I thought it was worth trying.
00:11:03.900 And so because I had that little bit of encounter with him, and then after the fact I realized how meaningful it was, I mean, I thought it was plenty terrible that he had to deal with this chronic pain.
00:11:17.500 I didn't know how bad it was or that it was part of a terminal situation.
00:11:22.480 So I found it hard to watch, but I recommend it highly because you do see, you know, one of the greatest of all time putting out some material you haven't seen before.
00:11:38.440 And that alone is worth watching.
00:11:41.060 I also watched Ricky Gervais, his new stand-up special that the trans community is getting up in arms for.
00:11:49.260 And it's kind of interesting because he says so directly that these are just jokes and that he says things just for effect.
00:11:57.500 He says that in the act.
00:11:59.540 You know, he pauses and says, you know, I just say this for effect, right?
00:12:02.220 It's just to offend you and make people laugh.
00:12:04.800 I don't mean any of that.
00:12:07.300 And to me, that should be good enough.
00:12:11.280 But the fact is that some things do offend people, just the topic itself.
00:12:16.540 You know, it just feels like you're making it too easy to mock them or something.
00:12:20.840 So I felt that this is one time that Ricky Gervais was trying a little too hard to be Dave Chappelle.
00:12:31.320 I hate to say that, but that's what it felt like.
00:12:36.360 Because remember how impressive it was when Chappelle handled, you know, basically a similar situation.
00:12:45.100 And he did it, you know, wokeness, let's say.
00:12:47.860 Wokeness in particular, not the trans issue.
00:12:50.680 But when Chappelle did his special, it was just sort of a genius.
00:12:54.280 You know, and it showed that somebody could talk about complicated emotional topics and still make it all work.
00:13:02.980 And I felt like Gervais wanted to enter that same space.
00:13:06.560 And I guess he did it successfully.
00:13:09.340 I'd say he did it successfully.
00:13:11.620 You know, he did occupy the space.
00:13:13.920 And he did, got away with it.
00:13:16.140 You know, by his standards.
00:13:17.460 But I felt like it was a little forced, that's all.
00:13:21.920 I felt like he was trying to get into that space more than he was trying to just make us laugh.
00:13:29.280 So it felt like there was a burden on the writing.
00:13:32.120 That's what I felt.
00:13:33.740 It's sort of just a weird writer's take on it.
00:13:37.100 But do I recommend it?
00:13:38.860 Yes.
00:13:39.940 Yes, I recommend it.
00:13:40.980 So in terms of things you could watch that would entertain you, yeah, yeah, you should watch it.
00:13:47.240 Definitely watch it.
00:13:51.400 Here's a hoax update.
00:13:53.880 So Jeffrey Goldberg, who may or may not have ever promoted any hoaxes in his past, tweeted this.
00:14:02.020 He said, a reminder that on Memorial Day 2017, Donald Trump and John Kelly, his chief of staff, visited the Arlington National Cemetery grave of Kelly's son, a fallen Marine officer.
00:14:14.680 Trump turned to Kelly and said, quote, I don't get it.
00:14:18.000 What's in it for them?
00:14:21.000 So that's what Jeffrey Goldberg says happened in 2017.
00:14:24.520 Mark Hemingway countered with a tweet of his own saying, a reminder, more than 20 people with knowledge of what occurred with Trump on this trip went on record to say Goldberg's anonymously sourced story is bunk.
00:14:42.800 Okay.
00:14:44.220 Now, did you believe even for a second that this was true?
00:14:50.200 I mean, just listen to this again.
00:14:51.560 Do you believe that Trump would have stood next to a grave with Kelly and, you know, where his fallen Marine son was and turned to Kelly and said, I don't get it.
00:15:01.520 What's in it for them?
00:15:03.120 Does that even sound a little bit like something he would do?
00:15:06.880 Like, even if you assume the worst things about Trump are true, he's always been respectful to the military.
00:15:13.320 Has anybody been more consistent in being respectful to the military in all the ways that he can figure out how to do it, right?
00:15:24.980 I mean, even if he missed a salute here or there, I don't know, maybe he did.
00:15:29.620 But clearly his intentions have been so consistent for years and years.
00:15:35.840 I mean, so it's just a ridiculous hoax.
00:15:38.280 And I can't believe anybody tried to promote that one.
00:15:40.560 But somebody will believe anything.
00:15:43.740 All right.
00:15:43.940 When I put out my hoax quiz, they had 10 popular hoaxes on it.
00:15:49.480 And I invited you to borrow it so you could share it with people who tried to argue with you online.
00:15:55.280 But if they believe any of those 10 hoaxes, you can say to yourself, I'm not dealing with a clever person here.
00:16:02.200 And that might be useful.
00:16:03.260 But I was one-upped by a user who said, 10, here's my list of, I don't know, 25 or 30 hoaxes.
00:16:13.120 What would be better?
00:16:14.620 What is more persuasive?
00:16:16.540 10 hoaxes or let's say 30?
00:16:19.460 If I were trying to convince you, let's say a Democrat, that the Democrat side was doing a lot of hoaxing and that it makes a big difference in how they see the world, would I be more convincing with 30 or with 10?
00:16:36.860 The answer is probably 10.
00:16:42.120 Now, I say probably because I think you'd have to do like a proper scientific study to know which really makes a difference.
00:16:48.840 Could be that the bigger number influences people.
00:16:51.980 But I don't think so.
00:16:53.800 And here's why.
00:16:55.280 If you only do 10, you can make sure that you pick the 10 that are the strongest cases.
00:17:00.560 If you pick 30, you will necessarily have things that are weaker than whatever your best 10 was, right?
00:17:09.820 So your goal would be to have the most number without getting into any weak ones.
00:17:15.720 Because when I looked at the list of 30, even I said, that's not a hoax.
00:17:21.440 That's marginal.
00:17:22.300 So I'm completely on the side of the hoaxes being hoaxes, but even I didn't believe the list of 30.
00:17:31.460 You get that?
00:17:32.760 Like I'm completely primed to believe that the Democrats are hoaxing everything.
00:17:37.840 You know, I've seen so many of them.
00:17:39.180 But even I couldn't believe the list of 30.
00:17:42.340 The list of 10 is hard enough to believe as it is.
00:17:45.460 And that's actually part of its strength.
00:17:46.980 Because you want people to see that there are like eight things on there that even they know are hoaxes.
00:17:52.580 And then there are two on there that they think were real.
00:17:54.820 And they're like, uh, oh shit.
00:17:58.400 If the other eight are fake, maybe these other two are fake too.
00:18:03.240 So the laundry list persuasion is one you need to guard against when somebody is using it against you.
00:18:09.780 Because if somebody has a list, you just sort of think something on that list must be true.
00:18:14.480 But if you want to be the one who's the persuasive one, then using the laundry list persuasion actually, unfortunately, it works.
00:18:24.460 I'm not sure it's the most ethical thing you could ever do, but it works.
00:18:29.740 Now in this case, it's ethical, in my opinion, because everything on the list is true, as far as I know.
00:18:36.820 And the purpose of promoting it is to make the world smarter and better.
00:18:42.640 So that feels ethical enough to me.
00:18:51.400 Yes, and has somebody said here, if there's one cat that doesn't belong in your house, you might be able to get rid of it.
00:18:58.380 But if there are ten cats, you're going to have to deal with the root cause.
00:19:01.740 You know, there's maybe a root problem here or something.
00:19:03.780 Elon Musk is sort of doubling down on his voting Republican.
00:19:13.540 But he said that he has a reason for why the Democrats may have turned so negative lately.
00:19:23.820 And apparently some of that negativity is hitting him.
00:19:26.180 He says that there was somebody who donated lots of money to political action committees posing as charities,
00:19:40.000 and that all that money is causing a lot of negativity to come into the system.
00:19:45.360 And that the person who donated all that money was Jeff Bezos' ex-wife.
00:19:48.920 Mackenzie Scott is her last name, I guess.
00:19:53.240 And so Musk is, like, directly saying that her money has changed things into a bad thing,
00:20:02.160 and so much so that he's escaping the Democrats.
00:20:05.700 And Musk says that it's true that Tesla was attacked by Romney in two or three presidential debates.
00:20:16.580 But he says those lines were fed to him by a particular individual in the oil and gas industry.
00:20:22.060 So Musk knows a lot about what's behind the curtain.
00:20:24.940 Like, he even knows the person who gave Romney the talking points.
00:20:29.140 So that's pretty far behind the curtain.
00:20:31.060 And he says, given the unprovoked attacks by leading Democrats against me, meaning Musk,
00:20:42.160 and a very cold shoulder to Tesla and SpaceX, I intend to vote Republican in November.
00:20:46.940 I love the fact that he's using his own vote as a public political weapon.
00:20:53.240 Who else could do that?
00:20:56.340 Imagine if I went public and said, I'm going to change my vote.
00:21:00.380 And the entire world would say, so?
00:21:04.880 What's that got to do with me?
00:21:07.180 Go vote any way you want, citizen.
00:21:10.260 But when the richest person in the world says he's going to change his vote and then shows his work,
00:21:15.940 tells you why, you kind of pay attention.
00:21:18.880 I feel like he could move the needle.
00:21:20.940 I mean, I don't know how much, but, like, I know I couldn't or anybody else.
00:21:25.160 But I think he could actually move the needle by saying, if you don't act better, I'll vote for the other team.
00:21:32.400 Now, what is it that Democrat voters get wrong all the time?
00:21:38.580 What Democrat voters get wrong all the time is they'll vote for their team no matter what the team does.
00:21:43.780 I suppose you could argue that Republicans do that, too.
00:21:48.700 But if people are just team voters, we're doomed.
00:21:52.520 So the richest, maybe one of the smartest people in the world, just show Democrats how they can retake power.
00:21:59.400 Stop voting for the people that are screwing you.
00:22:05.120 Do you know how big a lesson that is?
00:22:08.000 Stop voting for the people who are just screwing you?
00:22:11.100 Like, they're screwing you right in front of you.
00:22:12.940 They're not even pretending they're not screwing you.
00:22:15.760 I mean, they're screwing Musk, like, right in front of his face.
00:22:19.600 So why would he vote for them?
00:22:21.780 Now, I love the fact that he's not saying, I love Republicans and I endorse all their policies.
00:22:27.220 He's literally just punishing Democrats for being assholes.
00:22:32.260 Am I right?
00:22:33.880 Which is actually a really useful impulse.
00:22:37.320 Because simply saying stuff doesn't really change things.
00:22:40.080 But he actually changed his vote.
00:22:41.760 And he's willing to change his vote to vote for a team that has policies that I think, just guessing, he hates.
00:22:49.580 I'm just guessing.
00:22:51.100 Because, you know, I don't think he's a conservative.
00:22:53.600 So don't you think there are some conservative policies, some Republican policies that he probably hates.
00:22:59.560 But he's still going to vote for them to punish the Democrats.
00:23:04.420 That is really useful.
00:23:06.860 If he taught the whole country to do that, just punish your team if they're obviously just abusing you.
00:23:14.220 I don't know.
00:23:14.680 I think we'd come out ahead, wouldn't we?
00:23:15.980 We'll see.
00:23:19.120 So every time he makes a move, it has like a societal impact that's hard to judge.
00:23:26.480 Good news in indoor farming.
00:23:29.340 Maybe outdoors, too.
00:23:30.600 There's now a really good farm bot.
00:23:33.280 A robot that can plant your seeds and water it.
00:23:37.740 And it can pick the weeds and it can fertilize it exactly the right amount.
00:23:43.560 Basically, every kind of plant will get its own special treatment.
00:23:48.520 And I thought to myself, I believe that there's a 10x improvement in indoor farming that we're going to see in the next few years.
00:23:56.340 And all you need to do is be able to build a cheaper structure, the indoor part.
00:24:05.840 So if we can figure out how to make a durable, easy structure, that would be half of it.
00:24:12.920 Then the robots will get rid of the labor, because they can work all day long and they can do it perfectly.
00:24:19.020 They'll get rid of the fertilizers.
00:24:24.020 Or, no, I'm not sure.
00:24:25.280 They don't get rid of the fertilizers.
00:24:26.880 They get rid of the pesticides.
00:24:29.580 Right?
00:24:30.160 Because there's no bugs.
00:24:31.480 I think the robot could probably even squash a bug.
00:24:34.760 They didn't teach it to do that.
00:24:36.200 Yeah, it's hydroponics, probably.
00:24:38.820 So I think the yields, and they'll also, I think, learn to grow better vertically.
00:24:44.340 Because they don't have the vertical thing down as well as they could.
00:24:47.620 So I think there's going to be better mirrors, better lighting, cheaper electricity, fusion, who knows.
00:24:55.980 But whatever they do, I think there's going to be a 10x improvement in indoor farming.
00:24:59.820 And that will make us a lot safer the next time there's a food shortage.
00:25:04.840 Speaking of food shortage, we have two gigantic problems in the world.
00:25:13.100 One is that wheat looks like it's going to be greatly constrained.
00:25:18.900 So the supply of wheat will be so constrained that poor countries will, are predicted to have starvation.
00:25:28.460 It's a big problem.
00:25:30.320 Second big problem.
00:25:32.100 Obesity in rich countries.
00:25:34.500 Caused by.
00:25:36.400 Caused by.
00:25:37.960 Too much bread.
00:25:38.860 Well, you know, other things too, but too much bread.
00:25:44.280 So if we have rich countries who have too much bread, it's making them unhealthy.
00:25:50.340 And you have poor countries who are going to starve because they don't have enough wheat.
00:25:56.000 Is there no way we can solve two problems at the same time?
00:26:00.400 Okay, I get it.
00:26:01.260 There's a distribution challenge.
00:26:03.300 Sure, I get it.
00:26:04.220 But it's such a big problem, I feel like, you know, you could make those adjustments.
00:26:11.440 I'm taking this personal.
00:26:13.760 I don't mean to take your bread away from you.
00:26:16.720 Now, somebody said, you can't take bread away from, you know, the rich.
00:26:20.460 They will fight to keep it.
00:26:21.660 To which I say, well, if it's not on the shelves, what are they going to be fighting to keep?
00:26:27.820 So I feel as if the biggest category in my supermarket is bread.
00:26:35.200 Bread-related things.
00:26:36.640 I don't think we have a bread shortage.
00:26:38.260 I think we have, like, way too much bread.
00:26:41.580 So maybe the reason that it looks like an emergency, but we're not treating it like one, is that it isn't one.
00:26:50.700 Maybe people just adjust what they eat and everything's fine.
00:26:53.660 I don't know.
00:26:54.280 Maybe.
00:26:55.140 Maybe you just eat more vegetables.
00:26:57.820 But the CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, says that the open office plan for, you know, cubicles or non-cubicles, I should say, is dead.
00:27:11.880 And that the old way of the open floor plan with these meeting rooms that everyone's waiting in line to get in and no one can find a meeting room, all of that is, I think, a thing of the past.
00:27:22.500 So people will be trying to redesign the office of the future, and it might include coming in for a week every quarter to, you know, bond.
00:27:33.920 I don't know.
00:27:35.900 Does it feel like the cubicle is dead?
00:27:37.760 I mean, I tried to kill cubicles for 33 years, but it looks like it took COVID to do it.
00:27:46.500 Now, cubicles will probably always, because they're cheap.
00:27:50.320 As long as they're cheap, they're just still going to be used.
00:27:53.400 There will be some cool high-tech companies that try other things and then give up on them later.
00:27:58.100 It seems to me that Biden, his strategy for Ukraine is now clear.
00:28:05.920 For a while, it was a little murky, but now it's clear.
00:28:09.040 And I would call it the Afghanistan strategy.
00:28:12.080 It's basically the same as the Afghanistan strategy, which you could call losing expensively.
00:28:18.220 Losing expensively.
00:28:20.260 So it's two parts.
00:28:22.040 There's the losing.
00:28:22.920 But there's also spending way too much money to do it.
00:28:28.100 Now, winning would look like winning economically.
00:28:32.780 That's what a good outcome would be.
00:28:35.120 But if you're losing and you're spending way too much money to do it, that's sort of the Afghanistan strategy.
00:28:41.300 So at least we know what he's up to.
00:28:45.500 And I think we can say at this point that...
00:28:52.020 Here's another example of wanting versus deciding.
00:28:55.060 You know how we were trying to decide what is it that Putin really wants with Ukraine?
00:29:00.780 Does he want the whole country or does he want the region he's consolidating now?
00:29:06.320 And it always seemed like both, didn't it?
00:29:08.640 It was like, well, he sort of acted like he wanted the whole country, but maybe that was a fake-out.
00:29:14.360 Maybe he never did.
00:29:15.520 Maybe he just wanted the other stuff.
00:29:16.960 But I think here's a better way to look at it.
00:29:20.000 It's the difference between what you want and what you decide.
00:29:24.960 I believe Putin decided to take over those territories he's taking over right now.
00:29:31.140 Meaning that once he had decided, there was no price he was unwilling to pay.
00:29:35.860 It looks like it.
00:29:37.060 It looks like he would be willing to pay any price to take over those territories.
00:29:42.260 So that looks like a decision.
00:29:43.740 And as I told you before, if he ever decides he wants any part of Ukraine, he's going to have it.
00:29:50.960 Because he will be able to take however much pain it takes, and then he'll just have it.
00:29:55.220 It looks like that's what he's doing.
00:29:57.760 Any amount of cruelty, any amount of loss of life for Russians, any amount of military degradation,
00:30:04.020 any amount of sanctions, apparently he's just going to do it.
00:30:08.220 But, did he think the same way about all of Ukraine and Kyiv?
00:30:14.060 I don't think so.
00:30:15.740 I think all of Ukraine is something he wanted, but he had not decided on it.
00:30:21.820 And that when it looked like it was hard to get, he said, well, okay.
00:30:26.360 You know, it kept their army pinned down, and so it did his job.
00:30:30.820 We'll just take the part we care about.
00:30:32.180 So I think the wanting versus deciding frame helps analyze that one.
00:30:42.480 Here's the most optimistic, stupid thing you've ever heard in your life.
00:30:47.220 You've got a big problem with national debt, am I right?
00:30:51.200 National debt's through the roof.
00:30:53.460 You'd like to solve that, don't you, wouldn't you?
00:30:55.420 You've got another big problem, inflation.
00:30:59.080 Inflation, gigantic problem.
00:31:00.320 You'd like to solve that, wouldn't you?
00:31:03.080 Do you know what solves national debt?
00:31:09.340 Inflation.
00:31:10.560 You could inflate it away.
00:31:15.000 Now, don't get me started on why that's a bad idea.
00:31:22.100 Yeah, that's the low IQ take.
00:31:24.800 Now, it's both literally true
00:31:27.120 that probably the only way to get rid of a debt this big
00:31:30.280 is to inflate it away,
00:31:31.340 but you want to do it with, you know, a reasonable level of inflation.
00:31:36.200 You don't want to do it with runaway inflation.
00:31:38.960 That doesn't give you the win you want it.
00:31:41.640 Everybody okay with that?
00:31:43.560 That you want some inflation
00:31:45.400 because we'll probably never be able to pay it down.
00:31:48.660 You want the value of that,
00:31:50.280 those dollars that we borrowed,
00:31:51.720 just to reduce over time
00:31:53.720 because everything inflates,
00:31:55.100 even if it's just 2% to 4% a year.
00:31:58.920 But, you know, if you're up to 8% a year in inflation
00:32:01.440 or something like that,
00:32:02.380 that's a little too fast.
00:32:03.920 A little too fast.
00:32:06.200 All right.
00:32:06.520 Oh, my God.
00:32:10.380 This is the left-wing Robert Rubin nonsense.
00:32:13.580 I just said, don't take it seriously.
00:32:16.480 Is somebody taking it seriously?
00:32:21.680 No, you...
00:32:22.800 I'm pretty sure that you want a small amount of inflation
00:32:25.560 if you ever want to get rid of your debt.
00:32:30.740 But a big amount would be a bad idea.
00:32:32.880 All right.
00:32:34.540 Canadians, it looks like they're proposing this legislation
00:32:37.760 to cap their guns,
00:32:40.420 meaning that you wouldn't be able to buy another handgun
00:32:43.800 or any gun, I guess, if you're a citizen.
00:32:47.960 They can keep the ones they have,
00:32:50.440 but you wouldn't be able to get anything else.
00:32:54.900 You wouldn't be able to import it.
00:32:56.560 You wouldn't be able to get it anywhere else.
00:32:58.700 Now, people are going to say,
00:33:00.240 well, if Canada can do that,
00:33:02.640 why can't the United States?
00:33:04.760 Does anybody want to answer that question?
00:33:06.780 If Canada can do this,
00:33:08.820 why can't the United States go?
00:33:15.060 Well, let me jump in with my answer
00:33:17.340 while you're giving your answers.
00:33:20.760 Because they live next to the United States.
00:33:23.140 If Canada were ever, let's say,
00:33:27.220 attacked by a tyrant who wanted to occupy the country,
00:33:32.340 it would take 10 minutes for the United States
00:33:35.000 to flow 200 million guns into Canada.
00:33:38.480 They'll never be short of guns.
00:33:41.040 Canada will always have
00:33:42.480 all the American guns they want to use.
00:33:45.680 Because we're not going to let Canada go under.
00:33:48.820 Have you met us?
00:33:50.360 Canadians, let me talk to you directly.
00:33:51.880 Canadians,
00:33:53.900 you might think that Americans are kind of assholes,
00:33:58.940 kind of assholes sometimes.
00:34:00.140 You're not wrong.
00:34:01.080 You're not wrong.
00:34:02.560 Well, we're kind of bastards.
00:34:04.660 We're kind of bastards sometimes.
00:34:06.840 We're a little selfish.
00:34:08.080 We're cruel.
00:34:09.660 We're bigoted.
00:34:11.020 We're racist.
00:34:12.680 We're sexist.
00:34:14.160 We're a lot of things.
00:34:15.220 Yes, it's all true.
00:34:18.240 But Canadians,
00:34:20.680 if your ass gets in trouble,
00:34:23.980 call us.
00:34:25.600 Seriously.
00:34:27.340 Call us.
00:34:28.680 We're going to fucking save you.
00:34:30.420 Every time.
00:34:31.680 Every time.
00:34:32.780 Right?
00:34:32.940 So, you don't need guns that much.
00:34:36.720 I mean, at least for that one specific,
00:34:38.740 you know, use.
00:34:39.560 You don't need guns.
00:34:40.760 Now, you might be feeling unarmed
00:34:43.000 against criminals
00:34:44.320 and stuff like that.
00:34:47.540 That's not arrogant.
00:34:49.440 Is it arrogant to say that America
00:34:51.020 would come to the rescue of Canada
00:34:53.160 if that were ever important?
00:34:55.140 No.
00:34:56.040 Because Canada would do the same thing.
00:34:58.680 Can the Canadians imagine
00:35:00.280 any scenario
00:35:01.040 in which the United States
00:35:02.180 was seriously at risk
00:35:03.780 from an outside force
00:35:06.280 and Canada would not mount
00:35:08.600 its maximum military effort
00:35:10.940 to jump into the fight?
00:35:12.140 Of course not.
00:35:13.100 It's just automatic.
00:35:14.820 Right?
00:35:15.340 Canada and the United States
00:35:16.480 are just linked
00:35:17.120 and that's not going to change.
00:35:18.800 We're just linked militarily.
00:35:20.900 So,
00:35:22.040 it's not arrogant to say
00:35:23.300 that if Canada ever got in trouble,
00:35:24.760 the United States
00:35:25.540 would be there in a heartbeat.
00:35:28.040 That's just common sense
00:35:29.320 because it would work both ways.
00:35:32.340 Right?
00:35:33.240 So,
00:35:34.180 anyway.
00:35:40.900 Rasmussen has a poll
00:35:41.900 that says 76% of people,
00:35:44.560 this is the people
00:35:45.580 who very much support it
00:35:47.140 and kind of support it,
00:35:48.520 support some kind of
00:35:49.520 red flag rules for guns,
00:35:51.960 meaning that
00:35:52.780 a citizen could petition
00:35:55.220 the court,
00:35:56.060 I guess,
00:35:56.560 to have someone else's gun
00:35:58.360 taken away
00:35:59.080 if there's evidence
00:36:00.580 that that person
00:36:01.400 is a high-level danger
00:36:04.080 with a gun.
00:36:06.700 76% of the public
00:36:08.140 supports that.
00:36:10.560 Do you?
00:36:12.380 Now,
00:36:13.060 let's take for granted
00:36:15.100 that any law
00:36:16.860 can be abused.
00:36:17.620 So,
00:36:19.480 if you say
00:36:19.960 the reason
00:36:20.360 you don't agree
00:36:21.220 with it
00:36:21.540 is because
00:36:21.940 the law
00:36:22.360 can be abused,
00:36:23.640 that would be a reason
00:36:24.860 to not agree
00:36:25.500 with any law.
00:36:28.760 Because
00:36:29.240 every law
00:36:30.400 can be abused.
00:36:32.040 We have laws
00:36:32.920 against rape.
00:36:34.180 Has anybody
00:36:34.760 ever been
00:36:35.280 falsely accused
00:36:36.440 of rape?
00:36:37.560 Yeah.
00:36:38.500 I mean,
00:36:38.760 almost everything
00:36:39.340 can be abused.
00:36:40.920 So,
00:36:42.300 do you say
00:36:43.980 that you shouldn't
00:36:44.580 have a law
00:36:45.200 because it might
00:36:46.780 be abused?
00:36:48.020 That's not
00:36:48.580 a good enough reason.
00:36:50.320 I mean,
00:36:50.640 you'd have to be able
00:36:51.480 to measure
00:36:52.160 the size of the abuse.
00:36:54.100 Well,
00:36:54.280 how about this?
00:36:57.760 If you think
00:36:58.540 it's a good idea,
00:37:00.360 you're wrong.
00:37:02.200 And if you think
00:37:03.100 it's a bad idea,
00:37:04.380 you're wrong.
00:37:05.520 Why?
00:37:07.700 Can anybody
00:37:08.360 answer the question?
00:37:09.260 So,
00:37:09.480 there's my opinion.
00:37:10.420 If you think
00:37:11.040 that the red flag rules
00:37:12.160 are a good idea,
00:37:13.140 you're wrong.
00:37:13.920 If you think
00:37:14.580 they're a bad idea,
00:37:15.620 you're wrong.
00:37:16.780 Why do I say that?
00:37:21.560 Because you can
00:37:22.460 test it.
00:37:23.140 Thank you,
00:37:23.780 Anthony.
00:37:25.140 Anthony,
00:37:25.820 if you can test it,
00:37:27.320 you're having
00:37:27.640 the wrong debate.
00:37:29.260 The debate is,
00:37:30.200 where do we test it?
00:37:31.920 That's it.
00:37:33.600 Unless you want
00:37:34.320 to go full
00:37:34.980 constitutional
00:37:35.620 and say,
00:37:36.800 you know,
00:37:37.640 it's a red line,
00:37:39.840 don't test it.
00:37:40.780 But if you want
00:37:41.620 to know if it works,
00:37:44.040 find some place
00:37:44.980 that wants to test it.
00:37:45.960 find out.
00:37:47.880 Right?
00:37:48.240 You don't have
00:37:48.880 to debate it.
00:37:49.740 Just test it.
00:37:52.040 All right.
00:37:54.900 And so,
00:37:55.660 therefore,
00:37:55.940 I don't have
00:37:56.340 an opinion.
00:37:57.340 I don't have
00:37:58.060 any opinion on it
00:37:58.880 because it can be
00:37:59.500 tested.
00:38:03.400 An Israeli
00:38:04.160 cybersecurity company
00:38:05.300 says that Twitter
00:38:06.840 has 12%
00:38:07.880 bot-related traffic
00:38:10.360 at least.
00:38:11.000 Now,
00:38:12.340 the way that
00:38:12.740 they calculated it,
00:38:13.560 I think,
00:38:13.920 is a little bit
00:38:14.980 up to debate
00:38:17.080 because they don't
00:38:19.040 have internal
00:38:19.660 Twitter numbers.
00:38:20.840 They're just
00:38:21.060 looking at
00:38:22.520 external sites
00:38:23.500 that originated
00:38:24.240 from Twitter.
00:38:25.500 You know,
00:38:25.880 they think they've
00:38:26.620 got it figured out.
00:38:28.340 But I feel like
00:38:30.400 the asking price
00:38:33.500 for Twitter
00:38:34.000 is going to go down,
00:38:36.120 meaning that,
00:38:37.840 correct me if I'm wrong,
00:38:38.800 because I haven't
00:38:39.240 done a merger
00:38:40.300 of this size.
00:38:41.700 But when you make
00:38:42.680 a deal for a certain
00:38:43.640 dollar amount,
00:38:45.580 and then there's
00:38:46.240 a disclosure period,
00:38:47.320 right,
00:38:48.340 where you find out
00:38:49.560 if you're really
00:38:50.200 buying the thing
00:38:50.860 you thought you bought.
00:38:52.380 If you dig in
00:38:53.360 and find out
00:38:53.920 the number of bots
00:38:54.780 is way different
00:38:55.540 than what you thought
00:38:56.900 when you made
00:38:57.360 your offer,
00:38:58.620 then you would have
00:38:59.640 cause to renegotiate.
00:39:01.840 You'd say,
00:39:02.320 okay,
00:39:02.500 we've already said yes,
00:39:04.200 but now we've found
00:39:05.160 that this asset
00:39:06.040 is not as valuable
00:39:07.000 as we thought,
00:39:07.760 so let's decrease
00:39:08.520 it by 12%,
00:39:09.620 and I'll decrease
00:39:10.480 my offer by 12%,
00:39:11.740 or whatever
00:39:12.200 the numbers are.
00:39:18.980 The offer price
00:39:20.180 will go down,
00:39:21.120 not the asking.
00:39:23.560 Right,
00:39:24.160 the offer price
00:39:24.880 will go down.
00:39:26.980 Did I say
00:39:27.740 something else?
00:39:28.820 Yes,
00:39:29.160 the offer price
00:39:29.800 will go down.
00:39:33.120 Maybe.
00:39:33.840 So we'll see
00:39:34.260 if that happens.
00:39:34.800 So somehow
00:39:36.460 the EU,
00:39:38.040 the European Union
00:39:39.660 bloc
00:39:40.540 of them
00:39:41.640 have decided
00:39:42.280 to,
00:39:44.240 on Monday,
00:39:45.220 I guess,
00:39:45.540 just yesterday,
00:39:46.060 decided to cut
00:39:46.740 around 90%
00:39:47.560 of all Russian
00:39:48.260 oil imports
00:39:49.060 over the next
00:39:49.720 six months.
00:39:51.260 And they currently
00:39:52.480 import 25%
00:39:53.860 of their oil
00:39:54.320 from Russia.
00:39:56.540 Now,
00:39:56.840 is 25%
00:39:57.900 so much oil
00:39:59.100 that they can't
00:40:00.000 get that
00:40:00.340 from other sources?
00:40:01.140 I feel like
00:40:02.920 25%
00:40:03.740 is about
00:40:04.360 the amount
00:40:04.880 you can
00:40:06.400 get over.
00:40:08.940 In other words,
00:40:09.480 it's not
00:40:10.400 so much oil
00:40:11.480 that you can't
00:40:12.680 find other sources
00:40:13.740 in six months.
00:40:16.420 Now,
00:40:16.860 I imagine
00:40:17.300 that they would
00:40:17.780 not have made
00:40:18.340 this agreement
00:40:20.400 if they didn't
00:40:22.380 know they could
00:40:22.980 work it out,
00:40:24.100 or at least
00:40:24.820 they didn't
00:40:25.100 have a plan.
00:40:26.520 Gas is the
00:40:27.240 big issue,
00:40:27.740 as somebody's
00:40:28.060 saying.
00:40:28.360 Oil is not
00:40:29.080 the big issue,
00:40:29.560 it's the gas.
00:40:31.140 Because that's
00:40:32.240 a little harder
00:40:32.760 to source.
00:40:36.620 The North Sea
00:40:37.560 is running dry,
00:40:38.360 somebody says.
00:40:41.620 And Hungary
00:40:42.480 can still pipe that,
00:40:43.660 yeah.
00:40:44.340 So,
00:40:44.760 it makes you wonder
00:40:45.320 why it took so long.
00:40:46.680 And one of the
00:40:47.340 lessons that you
00:40:49.100 learn and relearn
00:40:50.700 all of your life
00:40:51.660 is that things
00:40:53.280 that seem essential
00:40:54.260 often are not.
00:40:56.180 Have you ever
00:40:56.620 been in a company
00:40:57.300 with a key employee
00:40:58.480 who if that one
00:40:59.820 employee left,
00:41:00.440 everything was
00:41:01.040 going to go to
00:41:01.500 hell?
00:41:02.380 And then that
00:41:02.860 one employee left.
00:41:04.860 And everything
00:41:05.500 was fine.
00:41:07.120 How many of you
00:41:07.920 have been in
00:41:08.220 that situation?
00:41:09.440 The key employee
00:41:10.180 left and everything
00:41:11.180 was fine.
00:41:13.040 Yep,
00:41:13.460 yes,
00:41:13.980 yes,
00:41:14.440 yep.
00:41:15.620 And look at all
00:41:16.180 the yeses going
00:41:16.860 by on locals.
00:41:19.240 Right.
00:41:20.600 So,
00:41:21.980 I feel like this
00:41:23.060 is another example
00:41:23.860 of that.
00:41:24.220 If you tell me
00:41:24.920 that,
00:41:25.720 no,
00:41:25.920 no,
00:41:26.080 no,
00:41:26.300 we cannot
00:41:26.900 find another
00:41:27.760 source for
00:41:28.420 25% of our
00:41:29.880 whatever,
00:41:32.620 unless it's,
00:41:33.540 you know,
00:41:33.860 rare earth
00:41:34.420 materials and
00:41:36.140 you have to do
00:41:37.040 it in a week,
00:41:37.980 I'm going to say
00:41:38.900 I feel like you
00:41:40.060 can always,
00:41:40.980 you can always
00:41:42.700 cut things by
00:41:43.500 25%.
00:41:44.640 It doesn't even
00:41:46.540 matter what the
00:41:47.000 category is.
00:41:48.280 Not always,
00:41:48.980 right?
00:41:49.120 But like 95%
00:41:51.120 of all situations
00:41:52.320 in the world,
00:41:54.060 you can cut
00:41:54.660 25% off it
00:41:55.920 and hardly
00:41:56.640 notice.
00:41:57.400 You'll make
00:41:57.720 adjustments.
00:42:01.900 All right.
00:42:04.720 Let's talk
00:42:05.380 about Putin's
00:42:06.020 health.
00:42:06.840 So that's in
00:42:07.380 the news again.
00:42:08.240 I would like to
00:42:09.000 remind you of
00:42:09.560 my record of
00:42:10.960 determining the
00:42:12.900 people's physical
00:42:14.440 health by looking
00:42:15.600 at them.
00:42:17.340 All right.
00:42:18.040 First time I did
00:42:18.980 this publicly
00:42:19.640 that I can
00:42:20.220 remember was I
00:42:22.940 said in the
00:42:23.360 2016 election
00:42:24.320 that Hillary
00:42:24.860 looked sick.
00:42:27.080 Does anybody
00:42:27.760 remember me
00:42:28.340 saying that a
00:42:28.840 lot?
00:42:29.700 That Hillary
00:42:30.080 looked sick
00:42:30.780 or drunk
00:42:32.180 or something.
00:42:33.100 And then she
00:42:33.600 did collapse
00:42:34.220 at the 9-11
00:42:34.900 event and there
00:42:35.640 was some kind
00:42:37.220 of health issue
00:42:38.360 that I don't
00:42:38.920 think has been
00:42:39.440 fully disclosed.
00:42:43.200 And would you
00:42:44.240 say that I was
00:42:44.900 correct in 2016
00:42:46.640 when I said
00:42:47.420 she looks
00:42:48.480 unhealthy?
00:42:51.320 Correct or
00:42:51.920 not correct?
00:42:53.540 Because many
00:42:54.020 and she had
00:42:54.780 that cough
00:42:55.280 that was weird
00:42:55.800 right?
00:42:56.460 It seems
00:42:57.240 correct.
00:42:58.300 You know
00:42:58.440 she had
00:42:58.780 walking
00:42:59.160 pneumonia or
00:42:59.760 something and
00:43:00.240 maybe I saw
00:43:01.160 it.
00:43:01.820 But I think
00:43:02.140 I was saying
00:43:02.600 it even
00:43:02.940 before the
00:43:03.480 pneumonia kicked
00:43:04.140 in.
00:43:04.820 Alleged
00:43:05.260 pneumonia.
00:43:06.700 Now so
00:43:07.160 that was my
00:43:07.680 first one.
00:43:08.100 I think that's
00:43:08.840 I'd give
00:43:09.700 myself a yes
00:43:10.660 on that.
00:43:11.540 Correct.
00:43:11.760 then I
00:43:15.260 also said
00:43:15.800 when Biden
00:43:16.340 was running
00:43:16.860 wait a minute
00:43:17.820 as many of
00:43:18.860 you did
00:43:19.180 he's clearly
00:43:20.540 mentally
00:43:21.000 incompetent.
00:43:22.740 And then I
00:43:23.380 heard from
00:43:23.760 somebody who
00:43:24.500 knew him
00:43:25.220 personally and
00:43:25.920 was in the
00:43:26.480 room with him
00:43:27.000 recently and
00:43:27.800 said you know
00:43:28.360 you're totally
00:43:28.860 wrong Scott.
00:43:30.500 I recently
00:43:31.500 talked to him
00:43:32.160 in person.
00:43:33.620 He's fine.
00:43:35.320 To which I
00:43:36.100 said I don't
00:43:38.100 think so.
00:43:38.600 I don't
00:43:42.060 think so.
00:43:43.700 And as
00:43:45.820 of today
00:43:46.440 wouldn't you
00:43:48.140 say I was
00:43:48.640 right?
00:43:49.560 That he's not
00:43:50.060 mentally capable
00:43:51.280 and that I
00:43:52.280 think he's
00:43:52.660 declined even
00:43:53.400 in the last
00:43:53.940 year in a
00:43:54.600 way that's
00:43:55.100 obvious to
00:43:55.700 most people.
00:43:57.220 So I think
00:43:57.700 I'm two for
00:43:58.180 two.
00:43:59.800 Would you
00:44:00.440 allow that
00:44:01.660 score to
00:44:03.000 stand?
00:44:03.500 Two for
00:44:03.780 two?
00:44:03.960 Two for
00:44:04.000 two?
00:44:06.180 Um
00:44:06.540 and now I
00:44:09.380 say that
00:44:09.740 Putin is
00:44:10.140 sick.
00:44:10.940 Now I'm
00:44:11.480 not going
00:44:11.760 to say he's
00:44:12.440 terminal.
00:44:13.780 I suppose
00:44:14.300 we're all
00:44:14.860 terminal.
00:44:16.240 But
00:44:16.640 there's
00:44:18.060 something wrong
00:44:18.580 with that
00:44:18.900 guy.
00:44:21.880 So I'm
00:44:22.460 going to
00:44:23.240 try to go
00:44:23.680 for three
00:44:24.140 for three.
00:44:24.740 There's just
00:44:25.060 something wrong
00:44:25.460 with that
00:44:25.720 guy.
00:44:26.300 Don't know
00:44:26.640 what it is.
00:44:27.240 Could be
00:44:27.560 his meds.
00:44:29.020 Maybe it's
00:44:29.820 not a bad
00:44:30.880 problem but
00:44:31.760 his meds are
00:44:32.500 causing him
00:44:32.980 to act
00:44:33.220 differently or
00:44:33.740 something.
00:44:34.560 I don't
00:44:34.740 know.
00:44:36.540 Well we'll
00:44:37.460 see.
00:44:39.560 Surprisingly the
00:44:40.660 DeLorean is
00:44:41.440 back.
00:44:42.460 Remember the
00:44:42.940 DeLorean with
00:44:44.480 the gull wing
00:44:45.220 doors and
00:44:45.980 back from the
00:44:46.980 future sort
00:44:47.700 of thing.
00:44:48.580 And I
00:44:49.880 guess the
00:44:50.380 founder of
00:44:51.120 the original
00:44:51.540 DeLorean got
00:44:52.360 busted for
00:44:53.140 selling cocaine
00:44:54.620 to finance his
00:44:55.820 car or
00:44:56.300 something like
00:44:56.740 that.
00:44:57.240 Was that
00:44:57.760 the story?
00:44:59.440 Anyway it's
00:45:01.520 coming back as
00:45:02.280 an electric
00:45:02.640 car and
00:45:04.820 has two
00:45:06.200 doors still
00:45:06.960 has that
00:45:07.260 gull wing
00:45:07.720 thing and
00:45:09.440 it would
00:45:10.380 compete with
00:45:11.020 a Tesla for
00:45:11.900 example.
00:45:13.060 But the
00:45:13.780 design is
00:45:14.380 really good.
00:45:17.020 So one of
00:45:17.960 the things that
00:45:18.340 the DeLorean did
00:45:19.040 well is it
00:45:19.500 looked cool.
00:45:20.960 It's one of
00:45:21.420 the things that
00:45:21.880 Musk got right
00:45:22.820 with his
00:45:23.320 original,
00:45:24.700 his first
00:45:25.760 electric car.
00:45:27.120 It looked
00:45:27.500 cool.
00:45:28.820 But I'm
00:45:29.980 not sure that
00:45:30.620 the Tesla
00:45:31.380 design in its
00:45:32.980 current form
00:45:33.920 people buy
00:45:36.340 because of
00:45:37.160 the outside
00:45:37.980 design.
00:45:39.520 Let me ask
00:45:40.000 you, how
00:45:40.820 many of you
00:45:41.220 think that a
00:45:42.360 regular Tesla,
00:45:43.660 let's not talk
00:45:44.620 about the
00:45:44.940 truck because
00:45:45.520 that's more of
00:45:45.960 a high design
00:45:46.520 situation, but
00:45:47.740 how many of you
00:45:48.200 think that the
00:45:48.720 ordinary Tesla
00:45:49.660 has a look
00:45:51.560 where you look
00:45:52.180 at it and
00:45:52.420 say,
00:45:52.680 hmm,
00:45:53.420 got to get
00:45:54.460 some of
00:45:54.760 that.
00:45:55.020 so it's
00:46:01.320 a mixed
00:46:01.640 bag of
00:46:02.720 saying,
00:46:03.040 a lot of
00:46:03.300 people are
00:46:03.600 saying it's
00:46:03.980 ugly, but
00:46:04.440 other people
00:46:04.840 are saying
00:46:05.240 they like
00:46:06.120 it.
00:46:09.120 Yeah.
00:46:10.040 So some
00:46:10.780 people are
00:46:11.100 saying it's
00:46:11.460 nice, some
00:46:12.500 people say
00:46:12.900 meh.
00:46:13.540 Now, at
00:46:14.180 one point I
00:46:14.700 said to
00:46:15.000 myself,
00:46:15.480 huh, I
00:46:16.660 wonder if
00:46:17.000 this was a
00:46:17.700 rare mistake
00:46:20.180 because you
00:46:21.780 could have
00:46:22.240 made it more
00:46:23.060 like a
00:46:23.500 DeLorean,
00:46:24.140 more sports
00:46:25.000 car-ish, but
00:46:26.300 on the other
00:46:26.820 hand, there
00:46:28.480 is a very
00:46:28.920 large percentage
00:46:29.660 of the public
00:46:30.140 that won't
00:46:30.600 buy something
00:46:31.260 that's too
00:46:31.680 flashy.
00:46:34.720 So I've
00:46:35.320 got a feeling
00:46:35.780 that if you
00:46:36.280 want to sell
00:46:36.660 cars to
00:46:37.360 regular people,
00:46:39.280 you have to
00:46:39.800 make them
00:46:40.240 regular
00:46:41.040 ordinary.
00:46:42.800 I think
00:46:43.480 we're too
00:46:44.080 into our
00:46:48.080 lifestyle and
00:46:49.340 the way we
00:46:49.860 present it.
00:46:51.220 You can't
00:46:51.820 take people
00:46:52.300 who want to
00:46:52.920 be under
00:46:53.280 the radar and
00:46:54.080 give them a
00:46:54.560 cool car
00:46:55.120 because they're
00:46:56.240 not going to
00:46:56.580 want it.
00:46:59.420 So I've
00:46:59.980 got a feeling
00:47:00.360 that the
00:47:00.700 DeLorean will
00:47:01.360 limit its
00:47:02.140 audience to
00:47:02.900 the high-end
00:47:04.060 performance
00:47:04.740 audience because
00:47:06.500 the average
00:47:06.940 mom and
00:47:07.540 dad just
00:47:08.100 want trunk
00:47:09.040 space.
00:47:13.580 And that,
00:47:14.540 ladies and
00:47:14.800 gentlemen,
00:47:15.560 is the
00:47:17.000 conclusion of
00:47:17.660 my prepared
00:47:18.240 remarks.
00:47:19.440 And I
00:47:20.080 would like
00:47:20.380 now a
00:47:21.080 medical rating.
00:47:22.960 if you're
00:47:23.540 joining me
00:47:24.060 late,
00:47:25.680 I'm on
00:47:26.580 the third
00:47:27.000 day of
00:47:27.280 the COVID,
00:47:27.940 still testing
00:47:28.660 positive,
00:47:29.220 just tested
00:47:29.660 myself before
00:47:31.060 the live stream
00:47:31.560 started.
00:47:32.980 And so I'm
00:47:33.940 infectious as a
00:47:34.900 mofo, but I
00:47:35.580 don't have any
00:47:36.100 obvious symptoms
00:47:37.320 that I can feel.
00:47:38.360 So here's the
00:47:38.880 question.
00:47:40.580 Could you
00:47:41.060 detect my
00:47:42.100 brain fog?
00:47:44.100 Go.
00:47:44.360 Go.
00:47:48.600 Locals are
00:47:49.160 saying no.
00:47:49.660 what do you
00:47:51.900 say,
00:47:52.200 YouTube?
00:47:52.620 Could you
00:47:53.000 detect my
00:47:53.720 brain fog?
00:47:57.520 I'm seeing
00:47:58.300 some yeses.
00:48:00.220 Seeing some
00:48:01.000 yeses.
00:48:03.300 How many of
00:48:04.220 you think that
00:48:04.900 the brain fog
00:48:06.060 detection could
00:48:07.500 be imaginary?
00:48:11.380 A lot of
00:48:12.140 yeses.
00:48:13.520 A lot of
00:48:14.280 yeses.
00:48:17.000 Yes, you
00:48:17.760 appear to be
00:48:18.420 unreasonable.
00:48:19.660 How many
00:48:20.160 think that?
00:48:21.600 Is there
00:48:22.200 anybody else
00:48:22.760 who thinks
00:48:23.240 that I was
00:48:24.300 more strident
00:48:25.960 or unreasonable
00:48:27.020 today?
00:48:31.460 Kind of
00:48:32.060 subjective.
00:48:33.500 Yeah.
00:48:34.100 All right.
00:48:34.580 Would it
00:48:34.900 make any
00:48:35.360 difference if
00:48:35.980 you knew
00:48:36.440 that I'm
00:48:38.760 also heavily
00:48:39.520 under the
00:48:40.000 influence of
00:48:40.580 marijuana?
00:48:41.000 I got this
00:48:45.640 new batch
00:48:46.720 recently that
00:48:48.440 has the
00:48:48.780 highest THC
00:48:49.720 concentration
00:48:50.460 I've ever
00:48:50.960 experienced.
00:48:52.360 39%.
00:48:52.960 Now, if
00:48:54.380 anybody's
00:48:55.260 familiar with
00:48:56.160 the field,
00:48:58.140 39% is
00:48:59.580 shocking.
00:49:00.660 I didn't even
00:49:01.180 know that was
00:49:01.580 even possible,
00:49:02.300 frankly.
00:49:03.200 30% is
00:49:04.280 sort of will
00:49:05.320 blow your
00:49:05.800 socks off.
00:49:06.400 If you're
00:49:08.560 not really
00:49:09.140 experienced,
00:49:09.780 you don't
00:49:10.000 want to go
00:49:10.300 over 30%.
00:49:11.300 So I didn't
00:49:11.760 know what I
00:49:12.160 was going to
00:49:12.480 get at 39%.
00:49:13.580 But it's
00:49:14.460 definitely
00:49:15.340 different.
00:49:17.080 It definitely
00:49:17.800 is quite a
00:49:19.820 charge.
00:49:24.020 Yeah, I
00:49:24.720 don't think
00:49:25.040 the fog is
00:49:25.560 made up.
00:49:26.220 So internally,
00:49:27.360 I feel like
00:49:28.880 I may have
00:49:30.020 some fog.
00:49:31.620 But I can't
00:49:32.520 tell yet in
00:49:33.220 terms of my
00:49:33.800 performance.
00:49:34.380 You don't
00:49:39.040 look well.
00:49:40.280 Well, I'm
00:49:40.560 not.
00:49:43.160 Did I just
00:49:43.960 tell you?
00:49:44.420 I've got a
00:49:45.440 terrible disease.
00:49:48.380 Apparently,
00:49:49.000 it's not that
00:49:49.400 terrible.
00:49:52.900 Maybe COVID
00:49:53.780 blocks caffeine
00:49:54.700 absorption.
00:49:55.320 You know
00:49:55.500 what?
00:49:56.260 So Jen
00:49:56.880 says maybe
00:49:57.580 COVID blocks
00:49:58.560 caffeine
00:49:59.100 absorption.
00:50:00.100 Now, I
00:50:00.400 don't think
00:50:00.740 that's true.
00:50:01.380 We probably
00:50:01.780 wouldn't have
00:50:02.120 noticed it.
00:50:02.780 But it
00:50:03.100 feels exactly
00:50:03.900 like that.
00:50:04.380 It feels
00:50:05.660 exactly like
00:50:06.460 I didn't
00:50:06.740 have coffee.
00:50:07.840 That's what
00:50:08.420 it feels
00:50:08.740 like.
00:50:12.320 So you're
00:50:13.060 saying you're
00:50:13.440 better isn't
00:50:14.020 necessarily
00:50:14.500 true.
00:50:14.840 No, my
00:50:15.460 internal sense
00:50:16.500 of how I
00:50:18.020 feel is
00:50:18.540 completely
00:50:18.940 better.
00:50:20.540 I do
00:50:21.240 have, I
00:50:22.680 would call
00:50:23.040 it maybe
00:50:23.520 like a
00:50:24.020 pressure or
00:50:24.900 something on
00:50:26.820 my brain.
00:50:28.680 Like, things
00:50:29.460 look different,
00:50:30.760 for sure.
00:50:31.540 anyway, it's
00:50:36.700 kind of
00:50:36.920 fascinating.
00:50:37.680 I would
00:50:37.900 just encourage
00:50:38.820 you not to
00:50:39.420 believe any
00:50:39.940 story of
00:50:40.560 somebody who
00:50:40.980 had a
00:50:41.460 miraculous
00:50:41.980 recovery from
00:50:42.820 COVID, because
00:50:43.960 they took
00:50:44.360 anything.
00:50:45.360 Because apparently
00:50:45.960 the symptoms
00:50:46.520 just do go
00:50:47.300 away all at
00:50:47.940 once when
00:50:48.780 they go away.
00:50:49.960 So you're
00:50:50.760 going to
00:50:50.980 blame or
00:50:51.780 credit whatever
00:50:52.680 you were taking
00:50:53.320 10 minutes
00:50:53.820 before they
00:50:54.280 went away.
00:50:54.680 and you
00:50:55.640 will be
00:50:55.940 wrong.
00:50:57.520 You always
00:50:58.100 get a brain
00:50:58.540 fog when
00:50:59.020 you have a
00:50:59.340 cold or a
00:50:59.760 fever.
00:51:01.180 You know,
00:51:02.360 honestly, it's
00:51:02.920 been 30 years
00:51:04.000 or more since
00:51:04.800 I had anything
00:51:05.400 that was like a
00:51:05.960 bad cold or
00:51:06.900 flu or anything
00:51:07.900 like that.
00:51:08.780 So I didn't
00:51:09.540 even know what
00:51:09.920 it felt like to
00:51:10.420 be sick.
00:51:11.440 I'd literally
00:51:12.060 forgotten what
00:51:12.700 it felt like to
00:51:14.140 feel bad.
00:51:15.880 I mean, I
00:51:16.340 guess that's the
00:51:16.820 good news.
00:51:19.000 All right, I
00:51:20.140 don't feel
00:51:20.760 depressed, because
00:51:22.860 I've heard that
00:51:23.340 some people have
00:51:24.140 symptoms of
00:51:25.640 depression, so I
00:51:27.520 don't feel that.
00:51:29.000 And here's the
00:51:29.960 weirdest part.
00:51:30.680 I think it
00:51:31.160 cured my
00:51:31.860 attention
00:51:34.560 deficit
00:51:35.060 disorder.
00:51:36.200 Now, I
00:51:36.420 don't have
00:51:36.800 actual diagnosis
00:51:38.240 of that, but
00:51:39.500 there's a time
00:51:40.060 of the day when
00:51:40.600 I just can't
00:51:41.220 concentrate.
00:51:42.460 I just can't
00:51:43.140 concentrate.
00:51:44.960 And yesterday,
00:51:47.400 I did an
00:51:48.120 experiment.
00:51:49.580 I said to
00:51:50.060 myself, I
00:51:50.580 wonder if I
00:51:50.960 could just sit
00:51:51.500 in the chair,
00:51:52.700 just sit here,
00:51:53.300 and be
00:51:54.540 satisfied.
00:51:56.620 Do nothing
00:51:57.300 else, just
00:51:57.740 sit here in
00:51:58.420 the chair.
00:51:59.860 And this is
00:52:00.640 something I've
00:52:01.120 tried lots of
00:52:01.820 times before,
00:52:03.060 because I
00:52:03.360 wanted to see
00:52:03.780 if maybe I
00:52:04.520 could get into
00:52:04.980 meditating again.
00:52:06.560 And I thought,
00:52:07.180 well, I'll just
00:52:07.600 try to sit
00:52:09.520 here and just
00:52:10.660 be happy.
00:52:12.520 I've never been
00:52:13.280 able to do it
00:52:14.060 until yesterday.
00:52:16.800 Yesterday, I
00:52:17.660 had the weird
00:52:18.200 experience, which
00:52:18.920 I reproduced a
00:52:19.740 number of times
00:52:20.280 during the day,
00:52:21.400 of saying, what
00:52:22.060 if I just
00:52:22.460 sit here?
00:52:23.920 Just sit
00:52:24.560 here.
00:52:25.620 And I would
00:52:26.180 just sit
00:52:26.620 there, and
00:52:28.960 I was totally
00:52:29.480 happy.
00:52:30.580 I've never
00:52:31.300 experienced that
00:52:32.000 before.
00:52:33.220 Never.
00:52:34.740 Now, I
00:52:35.160 think, yeah,
00:52:36.320 it was
00:52:36.520 outside.
00:52:37.480 One was
00:52:38.100 outside, but
00:52:39.700 not every time.
00:52:40.440 Once was
00:52:40.820 outside.
00:52:45.840 Well, I'm
00:52:46.520 always high, but
00:52:47.240 that doesn't
00:52:47.580 make a difference,
00:52:48.800 because I've
00:52:49.280 done the
00:52:49.580 experiment in
00:52:50.320 every condition.
00:52:51.420 So I know
00:52:51.740 that doesn't
00:52:52.120 make a
00:52:52.380 difference.
00:52:53.420 So my
00:52:53.800 natural brain
00:52:55.580 cycles are
00:52:56.980 running at
00:52:57.600 I don't know
00:53:00.700 how to compare
00:53:01.240 it to anybody
00:53:01.760 else's, right?
00:53:02.540 Because everybody
00:53:03.060 has their own
00:53:03.520 subjective thing
00:53:04.240 going on.
00:53:05.120 But my
00:53:05.760 subjective
00:53:07.100 experience of
00:53:08.040 what happens
00:53:08.480 in my head
00:53:09.080 is that when
00:53:10.240 I wake up in
00:53:10.820 the morning,
00:53:11.700 my clock speed
00:53:12.700 of my brain
00:53:13.320 is just right,
00:53:14.780 and I can get
00:53:15.680 a lot done,
00:53:16.100 I can concentrate.
00:53:16.780 By the
00:53:18.100 middle of
00:53:18.460 the day,
00:53:19.400 there are so
00:53:19.960 many things
00:53:20.440 happening
00:53:20.800 simultaneously
00:53:21.440 in my brain
00:53:22.420 that it's
00:53:23.580 hard to do
00:53:24.040 anything.
00:53:25.320 There's just
00:53:25.740 too much
00:53:26.080 crashing in
00:53:26.800 at the same
00:53:27.200 time.
00:53:27.960 You walk
00:53:28.540 outside.
00:53:29.380 If I open
00:53:29.960 this door
00:53:30.360 and walk
00:53:30.720 out, I
00:53:31.800 will be
00:53:32.100 met with
00:53:32.540 three new
00:53:33.140 variables.
00:53:34.580 Somebody
00:53:35.020 needs
00:53:35.380 something,
00:53:36.080 I found
00:53:36.560 out a new
00:53:37.000 thing,
00:53:37.380 the phone
00:53:37.700 rings,
00:53:38.820 that sort
00:53:39.660 of thing.
00:53:39.940 The dog
00:53:40.380 throws up
00:53:41.340 on the
00:53:41.540 ground.
00:53:42.940 So we're
00:53:44.900 overwhelmed with
00:53:45.700 all this
00:53:45.980 complexity.
00:53:48.220 And yesterday
00:53:48.800 I just sat
00:53:49.380 there and
00:53:49.960 didn't think
00:53:51.520 of any of
00:53:51.900 it.
00:53:53.080 Now, I
00:53:54.220 assume that's
00:53:54.840 brain damage.
00:53:56.500 I don't
00:53:57.180 think that's
00:53:57.640 like a cure.
00:53:58.900 I think it's
00:53:59.700 brain damage.
00:54:01.000 But I'm
00:54:01.580 hoping it's
00:54:02.020 temporary.
00:54:03.480 So I'm
00:54:04.880 going to try
00:54:05.280 doing some
00:54:06.600 cartooning
00:54:07.220 today, the
00:54:08.520 writing.
00:54:09.000 The writing's
00:54:09.580 the hard part.
00:54:10.880 And I'm
00:54:11.120 going to see
00:54:11.560 if anything
00:54:12.340 I write today
00:54:13.120 is funny.
00:54:13.720 that will
00:54:15.600 be the
00:54:15.880 test.
00:54:18.000 So we'll
00:54:18.580 see.
00:54:20.360 All right,
00:54:20.760 this, ladies
00:54:21.300 and gentlemen,
00:54:21.820 was the best
00:54:22.520 show you've
00:54:22.980 ever seen
00:54:23.540 in your
00:54:24.140 life.
00:54:24.480 I think
00:54:24.740 you'd
00:54:24.920 agree.
00:54:25.880 And I'll
00:54:26.440 keep you
00:54:26.780 informed on
00:54:27.480 my recovery
00:54:29.120 or non-recovery
00:54:30.640 as it goes.
00:54:32.320 And we'll
00:54:33.000 talk to you
00:54:33.540 tomorrow.
00:54:34.520 Bye for
00:54:35.720 now.
00:54:35.900 Bye.
00:55:04.520 Bye.